Compulsive Quilts

I'm trying to use up my stash before I start a new project.  As I have so many bright colours, this is where I will start. So my plan starts with the idea below. The shaded rails will be solids, the middle rail will be the same shades with a pattern or white, and the white rails will be well... white. I don't think it matters if my middle rail matches the others exactly, as long as they are a similar shade.  In fact, the solids don't have to match exactly either, as long as they tone in. To make a cot quilt, I will need 20 blocks, 5 long and 4 wide, so the finished size will be 5 foot x 4 foot. My stash has been organised into drawers, the middle drawer contains strips of 2 1/2 inches. I'm diving into that drawer.  Wish me luck.

Do you want to while away the hours at home, but don't have any fancy gear? You can't go out to the fabric store as it is not an essential activity, so can we just make do with what we have? I thought a hexagon quilt might be easy to make from what you have around home. If you have some old shirts that you can upcycle, that is all you need. It doesn't have to be shirts, but any fine weave cotton will be fine. A few hexagons to start with, all these are cut from my husband's old shirts, my favourite is the splotchy liberty print on the bottom right. At least 2 of the others were from shirts we had made while we were in Vietnam You don't need a sewing machine as we  will use English paper piecing and then the hexagons together by hand. The trickiest part is making the templates, but I found a video online to assist with that. This is what you will need: old cotton shirts, men's work shirts are ideal  a drawing compass, a ruler or tape measure,  som...